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Hey guys, i was wondering what the average day to day looks like for 11B's and 11C's. I ship out to Fort benning, in a month and i know i don't find out if im 11B or 11C till like halfway through basic training... but after basic training whats the average day to day look like if your an 11B or 11C? I heard if your stateside all you do is stuff like cutting grasses and FTX's. But what do you really do for both the 11B/11C? And how does it differ if your deployed (both combat and non combat deployment)
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That cutting grass BS is done, all those types of details have been replaced by contractor's. The "daily life" will be approximately the same. You will be on a training, deployment, recovery cycle. So the first 3-4, months of your cycle will be for training, any local schools will be placed in this block, army wide schools like HALO, Sniper, etc will be done as they availability is open. Most of the training in this block will be done on an individual or unit basis through OJT. You shoudl have "sergeants time, at least once week, usually on a Thursday. You will more than likely have a PT test, rifle quall, etc during this phase. Then you go into deployment phase, if you are not scheduled to actually deploy this will include a rotation at JRTC, NTC, or other Field Training Exercise. Then you come back for recovery phase. This is where all the kinks from the deployment phase get worked out, if you got to the FTX and you were missing someone qualified in X system then that gets sheduled for training phase, etc.
Rinse and repeat.
The things one will practice in training is: the 8 battle drills, any other drill, like the 30 minute drill in a mechanized unit, individual and crew served weapons training including the rifle (M-4), grenade launcher, SAW, M240B, and .50 cal BMG. You will also do gunnery, and this is where the majority of the difference lies. Gunnery as a mortar men is Mortar Fire, and gunnery for a striker is whatever weapon is mounted to their vehicle.
Rinse and repeat.
The things one will practice in training is: the 8 battle drills, any other drill, like the 30 minute drill in a mechanized unit, individual and crew served weapons training including the rifle (M-4), grenade launcher, SAW, M240B, and .50 cal BMG. You will also do gunnery, and this is where the majority of the difference lies. Gunnery as a mortar men is Mortar Fire, and gunnery for a striker is whatever weapon is mounted to their vehicle.
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Just so you know and I am sure it has not changed since long ago when I was in. The details in regards to picking up litter or cutting grass, post guard duty, etc are rotational for every unit on post. You might see that like once a quarter for like a week at a time. It does not happen a lot. You do have a lot of down time and most of the year is spent outside your barracks vs living in the barracks. I think it was 6-8 months in the barracks and the rest in the field and that was without deployments. Some deployments are in barracks and some are not, some are mixed. It's typically an 11-12 hour day. Up at 5 or 6. Off at 5 or 6 if your CONUS and light Infantry. Add one to two hours if your Mech Infantry and your in charge of a vehicle as you have to add in time to maintain and check on the vehicle. Vehicles are stored outside and believe it or not have to be started in cold weather every 4 hours to keep from freezing up........thats always fun in the winter.
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Also, You may be tasked to care a couple of mortar rounds while on patrol as an 11B while deployed.
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Excellent que Private. As far as 11X goes within Benning, there will be a lot of early days and a lot of training to include a 12 mile road march. Now, whatever unit You'll be at You'll either be a Grunt or a Mortar. There will be a lot of early days as an 11B and a lot of training as well. Not sure about cutting grass. Only ones I sqw cutting grass were the base maintenance folks or those that are on restriction. As an 11C there will be a lot of training and field training as well. Also, there will be occasional late days, especially if another Soldier missplaces something or loses something like NODS. Not sure if units still do 25 mile road marches or not. I recall I had to do one and completed the whole thing. During deployments is totally different. There will be a lot of early and late days. And a lot of patrols.
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If the Army still does as they did when I was in the Infantry, as a C you will have the senior, most experienced PL in the company.
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Charlie’s do everything with the addition of mortars. The day to day is the same. The deployment life will be the same, the only difference will be when you send off a couple mortar rounds and the bravos don’t. That’s literally it.
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All I can offer is, ... if you are chosen to be 11c ? Pray ! Pray you are assigned to a 107mm crew. Heavy mortar crews do not walk !
Otherwise..... if you are in a smaller caliber motar ? ......you'll be carrying "That puppy" on your hikes, too !!! WORD !
5 years mechanized, followed by 5 years "Light" Infantry. FTS !
If you're not sworn in, yet.... change your MOS to Air Defense Artillary.
There's probably a bonus in it, to.
Does the military still use ASVAB test scores, for placing candidates ?
Otherwise..... if you are in a smaller caliber motar ? ......you'll be carrying "That puppy" on your hikes, too !!! WORD !
5 years mechanized, followed by 5 years "Light" Infantry. FTS !
If you're not sworn in, yet.... change your MOS to Air Defense Artillary.
There's probably a bonus in it, to.
Does the military still use ASVAB test scores, for placing candidates ?
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Peachy! Like a vacation or a camping trip. See the world (the part where no one wants to see). Meet interesting people (and you get to shoot them at times). Be all that you can be (from shit burner all the way to Middle of Honor recipient). Get to play a video game all the time (Bradley/Stryker crew qualification). Free parashoot jump every month. Repelling of a tower, cliff-face, helicopter now and then. Playing laser tag all the time. Sampling MRE almost every day (each pack is about $75 - $125 on the market). Oh! Did I mention about the best pension out there and free college education? And if you don't use it, you can give it to your dependent(s). And you can't forget about a free funeral service, plus, burial plot for life! You can't beat this deal.
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Served all my time as a grunt. Although it was somewhat grueling there is special comraderies' between true grunts.
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Our 11Cs here are in a smaller platoon, wanna say like 10 dudes for our company. Rather than 3 platoons of 11Bravos of 40-50, yes we are slightly undermanned but from the looks of it a lot of other companies are similar here at the 82nd. The chucks seem to have a little more relaxed life here but everything has its perks I guess. I’m an 11B so can’t speak for them but got a couple buddies who are mortars. Also you’ll find out your first day of basic what your mos is. When you’re at 30th AG probably your last day they’ll tell you what you are. You’ll also know because if you have any guys there that are national guard that are shipping with you to basic(same company) if they are already 11Bs or 11Cs that’s what you’ll be. Because they already have their MOS guaranteed. Just how the guard does it. But as an active duty guy with no guard guys I found out my last day at 30th AG. They said 11Bravos ship this date and so on and so forth.... then if they say your roster number. That’s what you are. Also if you don’t know by the time you leave 30th, you will surely know when you get to basic, your drill sergeants will tell you guys.
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